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Description

Waze is one of the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation apps. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, gas money, and improve daily commuting for all.
Just by driving with Waze open, you're ...Read more

Description

Waze is one of the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation apps. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, gas money, and improve daily commuting for all.
Just by driving with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic info to your local community. You can also actively report accidents, police traps and other hazards you see on the road. Get road alerts on your route, and find the lowest gas prices around you shared by the community. Plus, Waze makes it easy to keep up with friends and contacts on the go. Say goodbye to pesky texts and calls (“leaving now,” “Stuck in traffic,” Almost there!”) and let Waze do the work for you.
- Live routing based on community driven, real-time traffic & road info
- Community reported alerts including accidents, hazards, police traps, road closures, and more
- Turn-by-turn voice guided navigation
- Live maps, consistently edited and updated by Waze community map editors
- Automatic rerouting as conditions change on the road
- Learns your frequent destinations, commuting hours, and preferred routes
- Find the cheapest gas station on your route
- Add contacts as friends on Waze
- See friends’ ETA when driving to the same destination
- Send automatic updates on your location & ETA
- One tap navigation to Facebook & Calendar events
- Earn points to climb the ranks in your community as you contribute road info
Waze is all about contributing to and benefiting from the common good, so hop on board and get involved!
Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Waze will automatically shut down if you run it in the background and haven't driven for a while.
Learn more about the Waze privacy policy, including what information is accessed and how it is used. With Waze, you have full control over your privacy settings. http://www.waze.com/legal/privacy/
What’s new in 3.8.1?
- New & improved voice guidance
- See friends’ and contacts’ names when tapping a photo to share drive or send location
Major bug fixes:
- Freezes and crashes
- Tablets unable to upgrade (Wifi only devices)

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UPDATED ON: Mar 11, 2015

SIZE Varies with device

INSTALLATIONS: 50,000,000 - 100,000,000

LATEST VERSION: Varies with device

ANDROID VERSIONVaries with device

Permissions

YOUR LOCATION

coarse (network-based) location

Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate phone location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.

fine (GPS) location

Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the phone, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.

access extra location provider commands

Access extra location provider commands. Malicious applications could use this to interfere with the operation of the GPS or other location sources.

NETWORK COMMUNICATION

full Internet access

Allows an application to create network sockets.

create Bluetooth connections

Allows an application to view configuration of the local Bluetooth phone, and to make and accept connections with paired devices.

view network state

Allows an application to view the state of all networks.

HARDWARE CONTROLS

change your audio settings

Allows application to modify global audio settings such as volume and routing.

record audio

Allows application to access the audio record path.

take pictures

Allows application to take pictures with the camera. This allows the application at any time to collect images the camera is seeing.

Allows an application to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the application to slow down overall performance of the phone by constantly running.

send sticky broadcast

Allows an application to send sticky broadcasts, which remain after the broadcast ends. Malicious applications can make the phone slow or unstable by causing it to use too much memory.

STORAGE

modify/delete SD card contents

Allows an application to write to the SD card.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

read contact data

Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your phone. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.

read calendar data

Allows an application to read all of the calendar events stored on your phone. Malicious applications can use this to send your calendar events to other people.